Tech Nation Solar logo
  • Home
  • Programmes

    Growth Programmes

    If you’re a tech entrepreneur, be it aspiring, scaling or late stage, we have a growth stage or sector programme.

    Early Stage

    Founders’ Network

    Rising Stars

    Mid Stage

    Upscale

    Late Stage

    Future Fifty

    Fintech

    Cyber

    Applied AI

    Net Zero

  • Resources

    Resources

    Whether you’re looking to learn digital skills, scale your company, or brush up on your tech industry knowledge, we have a resource for you. 

    Learning

    Digital Business Academy

    Guides

    Brexit guide

    Coronavirus support

    Government Resources

    Guide to AI

    Scaling Guide

    Scaleup Glossary

    Panels

    LawtechUK

    Fintech Delivery Panel

    Insurtech Board

    Support

    International Expansion

    Fintech collaboration toolkit

    Insurtech Standards

  • Reports

    Reports

    Data and insights on UK and global tech, all year round.

    Scale Ratio 2021

    The Tech Nation Visa Report 2020

    Unlocking Global Tech Report 2020

    Tech Nation Report 2020

    Jobs and Skills Report 2020

    Net Zero Report 2020

    A Bright Tech Future report

    The Unicorn Update

    Data Commons

    Tech for Social Good

  • Visa

    Visas

    Enabling tech talent from around the world to come and work in the UK.

    Tech Nation Visa

    Alumni Network

  • UK regions

    UK regions

    Supporting the tech communities across the UK.

    East of England

    North West

    Northern Ireland

    London

    South East

    Scotland

    Midlands

    South West

    Wales

    North East

    Yorkshire

  • News
  • Events
  • About us

    About us

    Find out about our mission, how we’re going to achieve it, and the people making it happen.

    Alumni

    Partnerships

    Press

    Jobs

    Contact Us

    Fintech Delivery Panel

×

Glasgow

Top 10 meetup hub with over 12k tech members

  • Introduction and foreword
  • Key findings
  • International
  • Digital tech business
  • Community perceptions
  • Collaboration
  • Jobs and skills
  • Recommendations
  • Methodology
  • Community partners
  • Belfast
  • Birmingham
  • Bournemouth
  • Brighton
  • Bristol
  • Cambridge
  • Cardiff
  • Dundee
  • Edinburgh
  • Exeter
  • Glasgow
  • Hull
  • Ipswich
  • Leeds
  • Leicester
  • Liverpool
  • London
  • Manchester
  • Middlesbrough
  • Newcastle
  • Norwich
  • Nottingham
  • Oxford
  • Plymouth
  • Reading
  • Sheffield
  • Southampton
  • Sunderland
  • Truro & Redruth
  • Worcester & Malvern
£1.05 bnDigital tech business turnover
(2017)
BalancedDominant distribution of businesses by age (2017)
£104 kDigital tech turnover by employee (2017)
184Digital tech business births (2016)
£1.31 bnGVA
(2017)
10,063Jobs in digital tech
(2017)
33,653Digital tech jobs
(2017)

Developments

Glasgow used to play second fiddle to Edinburgh, but no longer, Glasgow’s lower saturation and cost of living have now placed it firmly on the digital tech map. Tech is transforming the city’s traditional industries like oil, gas and finance.

  • Glasgow is awash with data science activity. The Data Lab Scotland, is funding university places for students in this field and the city hosted DataFest18, a celebration of data-driven innovation. It has been applauded for its focus on the potential positive power of the ethical use of data – from predicting pandemics and childhood obesity to enhancing earthquake response.
  • Startups continue to engage with, and solve, procurement challenges. One good example is Oxido, which aims to simplify access to and engagement with, official statistics while also facilitating user contributions to these data sets. They are a part of the CivTech initiative run from Edinburgh.
  • Space tech is taking off. Clyde Space was acquired by Sweden’s AAC Microtec at the end of 2017. Meanwhile, the University of Strathclyde'sSpace Institute continues to produce outstanding research and successful spin-out businesses.

Steven Calder

Managing Director, Streamba

About Streamba
We’re applying AI driven predictive analytics to connect people, data and decisions in the energy supply chain for maximising realtime global operational efficiency.  We’ve called this technology VOR, named after the Norse Goddess of Wisdom, who sees and knows everything.

Why Glasgow?
Our engineering team is based in Glasgow which has an exceptionally strong talent pool, especially for applying machine learning & data science technology. Glasgow is also super friendly and well connected to the Edinburgh startup scene. It’s the home of RookieOven and  has great bars and excellent transport access to global cities. We also have a strong presence in Aberdeen and are just branching into Houston, Texas.

National & International focus
We’re fortunate to be backed by Peterson, a technology driven global logistics company. Peterson are a Dutch company, so we’re international by default. Our customers are global energy operators.

Founded: 2011

Popular meetups in Glasgow

1,399 members

The Digital Media Meetup – Glasgow

1,095 members

Glasgow Internet of Things

972 members

Lean Agile Glasgow

Community perceptions survey findings

The Tech Nation 2018 Survey was conducted between January 2018 and February 2018, in partnership with Streetbees. This year’s survey received the largest response yet from members of the UK tech community. In a total of 3,428 submissions, people told us about the opportunities and challenges their local ecosystems face, and the digital tech leaders they admire. The majority of respondents (33%) were founders and CEOs.

What Glasgow startups say is a strength

1Proximity of a university
2Business opportunities
3Access to talent

What Glasgow startups say is a challenge

1Access to funding
2Retaining talent
3Availability of workspace

Who Glasgow startups say is influential

Michael Hayes

Co-founder, Add Jam

About you
Co-founder of Add Jam and RookieOven. With Add Jam we build products on iOS, Android and the Web; with RookieOven we work to create a more vibrant tech community in Glasgow. I was born and educated here and I’m deeply passionate about our tech industry.

Unique to Glasgow?
We benefit from a low cost of living and doing business. While we might not have the same access to finance that other cities benefit from, that means we can do more with less and are better placed to bootstrap businesses.

Strengths & Challenges
Our city produces high quality talent through our Universities, we should continue to focus on retaining that talent in the local ecosystem. It’s all about the people! There’s a prevailing culture in Glasgow of failure being a bad thing, we need to flip that around and create an environment where individuals are given the ability to launch products and services, fail, and start over again.

Tech Nation 2018 is now open!

Great news. All data featured in the 2018 Tech Nation Report is available online for non-commercial use by third parties.  The data can be accessed through the data.world platform. If you use the data, please let us know. We would love to showcase your work.

If you'd like know why we are doing this, check out our blog.

Next cluster

Hull

Address

Registered Address (not office):
Tech Nation
20-22 Wenlock Road,
London,
N1 7GU.

Sections

  • Home
  • Growth Programmes
  • Resources
  • Insights
  • Visa
  • News & Events
  • About us
  • Contact us
  • UK network
  • Privacy Policy
  • Terms
  • Cookies
  • Press

Become a partner

If you’d like to become a commercial partner or sponsor, we have a range of programmes, reports, events and campaigns you could get involved in.

Find out more.

Advertise with us

Leverage our tech network and collaborate with us to build your brand story. We’ll work with you to develop the perfect package for your business.

Find out more.

© Copyright 2020, Tech Nation. All rights reserved.

Tech Nation logo
×

We are using cookies to give you the best experience on our website.

 

You can find out more about which cookies we are using or switch them off in Settings.

Tech Nation logo
Powered by GDPR plugin
Privacy Overview

This website uses cookies so that we can provide you with the best user experience possible. Cookie information is stored in your browser and performs functions such as recognising you when you return to our website and helping our team to understand which sections of the website you find most interesting and useful.

Strictly Necessary Cookies

Strictly Necessary Cookie should be enabled at all times so that we can save your preferences for cookie settings.

If you disable this cookie, we will not be able to save your preferences. This means that every time you visit this website you will need to enable or disable cookies again.

3rd Party Cookies

Analytical/performance cookies: These help us to improve the way our website works, for example, by ensuring that users are finding what they are looking for easily.

Functionality cookies: These enable us to personalise our content for you, greet you by name and remember your preferences.

Targeting cookies: These cookies record your visit to our website, the pages you have visited and the links you have followed.

Please enable Strictly Necessary Cookies first so that we can save your preferences!

Cookie Policy

More information about our Cookie Policy